Fiber Festival 2025

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These first pictures are my son’s fiber stand, the 1st picture is most of it. The 2nd one is some printed alpaca coins (so cute!) on the part of the table that doesn’t show. The 3rd picture is a very large toy alpaca with alpaca fur that he uses as his mascot on his table so people will know he sells alpaca yarn (people love to pet it), you can see 3 alpaca rugs behind it. The last picture is a close up of the printed yarn bowls (cat, puppy and alpaca) he makes along with some of his alpaca fur stuffed animals and some dryer balls, the Chicken is in my Monday funny :P. And oh, the little round things hanging on the side of the yarn bin, are bird nesting balls. He puts his less useable alpaca fiber to stuff in them for the birds to use for their nests, not much gets wasted!! Hopefully clicking on the pictures will enlarge them.

This group is some of the pictures from the Fiber Festival of different vendors. The first one is my favorite goat’s milk soap and lotion maker, love her stuff!! There was so much yarn!! The 3rd picture is some wool needle felted pictures. I thought the Child’s sweater with the sheep was so cute. The 5th picture is of some beautiful batts made from Haunui Wool that comes from New Zealand, and oh my it’s so soft. I think he said New Zealand was the only place you could get that wool. I was going to buy the black batts with some colorful sari silk blended in at the top of the middle bin, but I waited too long and it was gone when I went to buy it. I will have to order it. The 6th picture was a friendly vendor who posed for a picture for me :). The next two pictures are a hand made and designed quilt from one of the 2 Guys Yarn Company and their card because the beautiful quilt deserved to have the creator known.

I did buy from 2 vendors, I didn’t get a picture loaded but I bought 2 lotions from the Lily’s soap and lotion vendor – two lotions, an almond & cherry fragrance and a lavender fragrance. Both are so good. The 1st picture above is of a miniature blending board that was so dang cute I couldn’t resist it, and the 2nd picture shows my attempt to make a mini batt and the rolag is in the 1st picture, LOL. Now I just need a little miniature spinning wheel to put in my craft room on the craft dresser with the miniature blending board. The business card is the vendor I bought this from and the creator is on the bag it came in. Those tines are sharp, I poked my thumb!!! The little brush looking thing is called a burnisher, it is used to comb the fiber deeper into the tines on the board and the two rods are used to roll the fiber up into a rolag. Would look so cute in a shadow box!!

We got a lot of rain today, heavy at times, and tomorrow (Wed) the rain turns into snow about 6am and snows until early afternoon. The weatherman said lots of straight line winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts over 60 later tonight and into tomorrow. Guess it can’t make up it’s mind. Feels like winter is fighting with spring for possession of the weather.

Hope everyone is fairing well. Be safe if you are in the way of this storm.

Monday Funny!!

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With the egg dilemma, the chicken just said, “That’s a lot of Egg-spectations on me!”

This is one of my son’s alpaca fur lined stuffed animal toy chicken, that he sells in his store (more pictures will be forth coming on Tuesday of the fiber fair). He made a funny about it and I thought it was very clever so there it is 😛

Update on the Baby Blanket & Frigid Temps.

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The first picture is the Look for Happiness blanket (baby size). I am about 3/4’s finished. Getting excited to get this finished, even tho I am enjoying it, I have other things to get busy on!! The lightbulb markers you see running up the left side are counting 10 center patterns (four rows per pattern) because I need 39 and it is easier to keep track of how many I’ve knitted :). Nine center patterns left then the top border :). I will make this again!

The 2nd picture is our weather from yesterday afternoon to 3am this morning. We were almost as cold today, but starting tomorrow we will be a few degrees warmer and by Friday we will actually hit the lower to middle teens (without wind chill). I have stayed in my house yesterday and today, not my favorite thing getting out in way below 0 degrees weather. They are promising us lower 40’s on Sunday and Monday, impatiently waiting! Spring is getting closer even if it doesn’t feel like it :P.

Wednesday’s Snow!

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This was a decent snow storm. It was about 6 or 7 inches. I took this Wed evening before it quit snowing because in the day it was so bright it was blinding!!! It was a dry snow so the wind blew it into drifts, and it does look pretty, but that will change as cars drive by then it will turn a brown color. I’m ready for Spring!

Yarn I Got for a Christmas Project

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I wish they would quit changing things on WordPress, this took an hour to get the pictures almost where I wanted them because creating the one choice I usually use, made them way to big and very long with no way to make them smaller. Ugh!

Anyway, my mind is un-fogged and I can think straight again and knitting on the blanket again, I’ll put a picture up of my progress in a few days or a week. I was very sick for 3 weeks in Jan, with some ugly respiratory virus’, RSV and influenza A, not at the same time (thank goodness!) but as I was almost over one I got sick with the other, very nasty critters.

The first picture is from some extra cold air that came down from Canada in Jan. Yes that is frost on the inside of the metal plate on my sliding glass door inside my apt. If I’d get some heavy thermal drapes that might not happen or if it did, I wouldn’t see it :P. I’m not a cold weather girl, but here I am anyway. sigh.

The second picture is the yarn I ordered before Christmas but didn’t get to start the Christmas gifts I wanted to do, partly because I was sick with a cold (this has been an ugly winter for getting sick for everyone I know!!) and wasn’t up to it. But now I can tell you what I got them for. I bought some patterns from Arne & Carlos and the Christmas tree decorations with the knitting Christmas ball color work ornaments was one of them. I will need to buy more of this yarn as I go. There are 24 ornaments in this pattern for $7, but just before Christmas they are 1/2 off. I’m really not into color work, but these aren’t very big and maybe I’ll decide I like it better than I did years ago. I haven’t started working on any yet, they will still be gifts, but I have a blanket and a couple of hats and a pair of fingerless mitts to finish first. All this sick stuff reset my brain and now that I feel human again, my knitting mojo is back. But this year I will have a little less time to knit because the new calling I now have in my church is much busier than the calling I had before. Especially while I figure out what I’m doing and get use to it!!! Having a little anxiety over the change and that is normal for me with change :P, but the knitting should help with that!